A South African newspaper blasted the country’s Zionist federation over Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin. In an opinion piece in the daily Cape Times, philosophy lecturer Anthony Holiday from the University of the Western Cape asked “why we continue to tolerate the presence of an organization that not only defends actions of this kind but is dedicated to undermining the patriotism of South Africans of Jewish descent.”
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